Rosetta

[Andre Cramblit]

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:17:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: lbwelch <lbwelch at longnow.org>
Subject: Jobs: Specialization Not Required: Intern, Rosetta  
Project/Long Now
Foundation

University or Organization: Rosetta Project/Long Now Foundation
Rank of Job: Intern
Specialty Areas: Specialization not required

Description:

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists  
and native
speakers working to build a publicly accessible online archive for all
documented human languages. We are looking for people to help with the  
core
task of scanning and/or typing in existing materials on a wide variety  
of
languages of the world. Our goal is to put together the most broad and  
complete
reference work on the languages of the world to date - a reference work  
of
relevance both to academic linguists and to endangered language  
communities.

After three years of collection and curation, the Rosetta online  
archive is
already the largest descriptive linguistic resource on the Net. We  
currently
serve over 30,000 text pages documenting writing systems, phonology,  
grammar,
vernacular texts, core wordlists, numbering systems, maps, audio files,  
and
demographic/historical descriptions for over 1,700 languages. A major
sub-component of the Rosetta archive is the ALL Language Word List  
Database - a
collection of 200 term core vocabulary lists for the languages of the  
world.

As an intern with Rosetta, you will be exposed to important works on an
extremely wide variety of languages, and will have the opportunity to  
see what
goes into developing and maintaining a large, on-line, digital archive  
as you
participate in a history-making project. Internships are typically for  
1-2
months.  Full-time interns (32+ hours/week) have access to preferential
housing/rent pricing in the Presidio of San Francisco, where our  
offices are
located (ask for details if this is of interest to you). In general,  
the work
needs to be done here in our offices (unless you want to take on a much  
larger
commitment, in which case we can consider ways to set you up to work
off-site).


Address for Applications:

         Attn: Laura Buszard-Welcher
         The Rosetta Project / Long Now Foundation
         P.O. Box 29462
         San Francisco, CA 94129-0462
         United States of America

         Position is open until filled.

Contact Information:

         Laura Buszard-Welcher
         Email: lbwelch at longnow.org
         Tel: (415) 561-6582
         Fax: (415) 561-6297
         Website: http://www.rosettaproject.org/live

.:. 

André Cramblit: andre.p.cramblit.86 at alum.dartmouth.org is the  
Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council  
NCIDC (http://www.ncidc.org) is a non-profit that meets the development  
needs of American Indians

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